Friday, 28 January 2011

North Ryde. $108 million hub approved

The NSW government has approved the construction of the $108 million, six-storeyAustralian Hearing Hub, a major state-of-the-art medical research and teaching facility, at Macquarie University. The Minister for Planning, Tony Kelly, said the government had provided $360,000 to bring together three non-profit hearing organisations, the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre, the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children and the Shepherd Centre, to work with leading researchers at the university He said the project would support the growth of the Macquarie Park Specialised Centre which was identified in the Metropolitan Plan for Sydney 2036, released in December.